a. [f. Gr. θεοκρατία THEOCRACY + -IC: cf. aristocratic, etc.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of theocracy.

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1741.  Warburton, Div. Legat., V. ii. II. 375. The true Reasons of the Theocratic Form of Government.

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1800.  G. Richards, Divine Origin of Prophecy. I. 33. They [Prophets’ predictions] appear … to have been rather an instrument of the theocratic government, than the means of convincing future ages of the extraordinary foreknowledge of the Prophets.

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1841.  Trench, Parables, ii. (1877), 29. We may say generally of the parables that St. Matthew’s are more Theocratic; St. Luke’s more ethical.

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1865.  Lecky, Ration. (1878), II. 120. This Church and State theory … forms the last vestige of the old theocratic spirit that marks the earlier stages of civilisation.

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